b/g twins share a room but new baby is on the way

Currently DH & I share a room, the twins share a room and we have a guest room.
We're planning on moving next summer *hopfully* to a larger home.
Until we move, since the baby will sleep in our room for at least the first 3 months I plan on just putting a crib & dresser in the guest room for when he/she transitions to a crib. still leaving the guest bed up etc.

Once we move however would you keep your twins together and give the new baby its own room? Or would you put the same sex kids in the same room? i.e.- if this is a boy, the 2 boys can share and Macey can have her own room? Even if we buy a 4 bedroom house (which we hope to) I want to have a guest room available so someone else is going to have to share!

 

When we had our twins, we lived in a 2 bedroom house... and had 3 older children: 1 girl and 2 boys. The three older kids shared a room, and the girlies were in with us at first. Then we had 1 in with us, and one in the living room. Small house!!! We moved 2 years ago to a house twice as big, with 5 bedrooms. But we still have kids share rooms. DH and I have 1, I have a sewing room, there's a toy room, then a boy room and a girl room. But often as not, the girlies don't even sleep in their own beds. Sometimes they climb in bed with Sage (who has a big double bed and room for both of them) or in bed with one of their big brothers. We're downstairs and the other bedrooms are upstairs, so I don't even notice til the morning, if they've done it in the middle of the night. My point in all of this, is that at this age, I don't really think it matters. I would say which ever personalities seem more compatible, really, unless you're really wanting to decorate very boyish or girly rooms. How they sleep best together would be the most important criteria, IMO.

 

I would do a boy room and a girl room.

 

we have boy girl twins and a girl on the way,
with three bedrooms (we do have two offices but they are upstairs and not ready for kids anytime soon)
so the baby will get her own room for now, I dont think the twins are ready to be split up. but when they are ready, DS will get his own room and
the two girl will share one room. even if we had an extra room i think the twins would stay together for now.

 

We have 3 bedrooms and 5 kids so DH and I share with the new baby my 9 year old DS has a room of his own and the 3 year old twins DS and DD and our 2 year old DS all share one room. Its like a sleepover every night in there . Hopefully the next house will have 4 bedrooms then we will do a boy room and a girl room but at the moment it works great the way it is!

 

We're going to be moving by the end of the year (hopefully)! I think until my babies are out of the baby stage I'll have them just share a room together and maybe until they are in toddler beds (b/g twins). When they are in their big beds I think at that point I'll transition and put the girls together in the same room. I heard someone mention that it's some law or something (atleast in this state) that you have to have them in separate rooms anyway by age 5 or 6 (boys and girls I mean).

 

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I heard someone mention that it's some law or something (atleast in this state) that you have to have them in separate rooms anyway by age 5 or 6 (boys and girls I mean).

People say this all the time, but I truly don't think there's any kind of law like that out there. I know there's not in my state. How could they regulate that? If you only have 2 bedrooms, and you have both genders, are they going to build on your house for you? I think this only applies to fostering or adopting.

My DD shared a room with her younger brothers until she was 9. The kids were very resourceful about hanging a blanket from the loft bed to make a changing area, or would just change clothes in the bathroom. They also were very strict with each other about not getting on another person's bed unless you were given specific permission to do so, so they had their own little space. It was tight quarters, but we made it work. Now in our bigger house it's nice to have a boy room and a girl room, and their boundaries are actually looser with each other, though not in any kind of bad way.

 

For a couple months after the move, I would have all the kids in the same room. I'd be hesitant to separate the twins at a time when they're making an adjustment to a new house. After you all are settled, then I'd make a boy room and a girl room. You can decide if Macey or the boys will be the one to move to a new room based on their personalities. Of course, you can just leave all the kids together for a couple more years as well. That's what we have right now and all the kids like it.

 

We had this same situation when Jax was born. We kept the girls together in one room and made the other his room. It worked great because the girls weren't disturbed and they still had their own space. Plus, they were still napping during the day, and that would have never worked with a baby in room. Good luck!

 

Not sure what we will do. I guess it will depend on how big the next house is
Im hoping since the twins should be about 2.5 when the move takes place they can give me some input.
thanks for telling me what works for you all.